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Saudi-led coalition denies striking funeral in Yemen

  •   Sun, Oct 09 2016 08:57:20 AM

Riyadh, Oct 9 (IANS): The Saudi-led coalition denied on Saturday carrying any air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa, sources from the coalition confirmed to local news Al Arabiya.

Earlier on Saturday, Yemen's acting health minister Ghazi Ismail said the Saudi-led coalition air strikes on a funeral hall in Sanaa have killed 82 and injured 534.

The mourning ceremony was held for the father of the acting interior minister and rebel Houthi loyalist Jalal al-Ruwaishan.

The Yemeni official strongly condemned what he said "barbaric air attacks against civilians and civilian targets."

However, the sources from the coalition said it has in the past avoided such gatherings and they have never been a subject of targets.

The Saudi-led coalition, which supports the internationally recognized Yemeni government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi against Shiite Houthi rebels, have been air striking Yemen from March 2015.

Houthi rebels, supported by forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, seized Sanaa and some other cities in September 2014, forcing Hadi and his government into exile.

The airstrikes and fighting on the ground have killed over 10, 000 Yemenis, many of them women and children, and injured around 35,000 others, according to a UN report.
  

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  • shaji, mangalore

    Mon, Oct 10 2016

    This barbaric killing should be condemed and in the same time we should condemn killings in Palestine, Kashmir, Burma etc. Its unfortunate that UN is just watching it.

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  • Don, Mangalore

    Sun, Oct 09 2016

    R.I.P to the dead and get well soon for the injured.

    What leaves me speechless is how this readership would have responded even 1 person of Indian origin was killed in the West, the Americas, in Australia or New Zealand. Just imagine the outcry, and there is nothing wrong in that because that anger and condemnations are just.

    But here 150 human beings were killed irrespective of their Race or Religion - but not 1 (ONE) comment so far ????

    What a sorry state of affairs, and hypocrites are we - unimaginable.

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